Vintage Hand Tools - Axes, Knives & Adzes

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Good tools last a lifetime, or to be more accurate they should last more than a lifetime and it isn't uncommon to see hand tools that are over a hundred years old still in use today. Stone axes have been in use since prehistoric times, not just by humans but by preceding species too. Metal axes for felling and working timber have been in use for thousands of years and this section will feature a selection of tools for sale aswell as reference pictures of vintage examples.

Tools within this category will include felling axes, side axes, felloes, draw knives, adzes, froes, cleaving axes, log splitters, hand axes, bowl adzes, cooper's adze, shipwright's adze, carpenter's adze, kindling choppers, hatchets and others.

Sorry, no axes, adzes etc currently listed for sale

Reference Images

Adze

Felling axe

Billhook

Elwell Hand Axe

Straight drawknife and other tools